By Kalpana Pathak
Alternative schools are schools which provide an alternative (a non-traditional education system) to mainstream education. Mostly child-centred schools, these base themselves on a number of philosophies. Their approach to studies and teaching are different from the run-of-the-mill schools.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
There were times when I walked with my hand across her shoulder. At home, I slept with the house-keys inside my pillow case. I was scared to let them out anywhere else. The house was always kept locked. A door to Amma was just a passage out she look for. When she saw one, she had to use it.
By Debarun Sarkar
Sharmila,
Its time you stopped fasting
and validating the state.
By Ananya S Guha
Access and flexibility are becoming myths in Indian Education. To put hurdles in the path of Distance Education is to deny access to education to many deprived learners. Through study centers and mobile learning centers, Distance and Open modes take education to remote areas.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
My phone and I had bequeathed and shared meaning between us in similar ways. I had committed memories, thoughts, and images to it in such a way as to create a personal archive.
By Arunoday Majumder
The final fiasco in JNU saw a number of remarkable get-togethers. Hapless inheritors and parliamentary communists were in attendance. The second variety in particular is not exactly emblematic of freedom of thought. Higher education in West Bengal, during the communist regime, was hammered and sickled to mediocrity in the name of countering elitism.
By Adil Bhat
The recent raid, however, raises the following question: Has the Government been successful in achieving what it desired, the de-politicization of campuses across country, in this case Jamia?
By Anubhav Majumdar
In darker days
In colder nights
In us holding
Not just our hands
But our lives.
Nitasha Kaul said India’s relationship with Kashmir—humiliating attitude towards them, killing, injuring, and blinding of innocent people, intimidating of journalists, and clamping down on the media and shutting down internet and mobile communication— was like Britain’s relationship with India under colonial rule.
By Kouser Fathima
Homemakers to working women are trying to be seen and heard, in contrast to the Bollywood heroine, who is reduced to being an arm-candy to the male superstar. Bollywood economics, film makers, and the entry of corporate money into the industry have changed the dynamics of Bollywood.
By Karthik Venkatesh
The Ghadar Movement’s continued neglect in our History books speaks ill of those who laid the foundations for our freedom and is something that needs to be undone. This Independence Day is a good time.
By Akash Bharadwaj
His characters at once speak of love, alienation, and grief that people experience in their lives. The protagonists in his stories are not just cogs in the wheels; they carry with them a vision which is not constricted by narrow discriminatory boundaries of caste and religion.
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